While everyone's distracted with the latest drama about masks and meat shortages, lots of strange stuff is going on outside of the political spotlight.

Obama era cover-ups, Hollywood environmental overholes.

Making it all seem like this shutdown is more of a shell game.

Then, the last half dozen remaining never-trumpers on Earth conspired to take down the president, and in so doing they remind us why we got rid of them all in the first place, finally the mailbag.

I'm Michael Knowles, this is the Michael Knowles Show.

We've got a whole lot to get to because there's a lot happening that I think we're all being distracted by other things so that we cannot pay attention to what's going on behind the scenes.

We'll get to that in a moment.

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So check it out over at a books.com slash Knowles. That's a number. Easy to remember. Never let a crisis go to waste. That's what the left tells us. That's what Ram Emmanuel tells us. That's what leftists have told us all the way back to Sololinsky and before then. Why?

Two reasons. The two reasons are one to seize on people's fear to ram through policies that people would otherwise object to. That's the idea.

You always want to have a crisis or take advantage of a crisis or sometimes encourage a crisis so that you can get people whipped up and they're not thinking is rationally and they'll be more amenable to whatever radical policies that you want to get through.

And during times of crises, that's the time that radical policies do get through. So that's the first one. That's the one we all know about. There's a second reason why the left.

And I guess it's general political advice why they never let a crisis go to waste. The second reason is because crises are really, really good at distracting people from all the things that you don't want them to see.

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